The Winners of the 24th Annual Translation Prize
The French-American Foundation and the Florence Gould Foundation announce today the winners of the 24th Annual Translation Prize for superior English translations of French prose published in 2010. This year four winners were selected:
Fiction:
- Mitzi Angel for 03 by Jean-Christophe Valtat (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- Lydia Davis for Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (Viking/Penguin Group)
Non Fiction:
- Frederick Brown for Letters from America by Alexis de Tocqueville (Yale University Press)
- Jane Marie Todd for Reading and Writing in Babylon by Dominique Charpin (Harvard University Press)
The four translators received a cash prize of $5,000 each, funded by the Florence Gould Foundation, and were honored at a special ceremony last night in New York.
“The annual translation prize is a chance to celebrate the ways that our two cultures influence each other and to acknowledge the great talent of translators and writers whose work often goes unnoticed. The prize is key to maintaining strong cultural and literary ties across languages. We congratulate all four winners for their fantastic work,” said French-American Foundation President Antoine Treuille.
Jurors for this year’s competition included Linda Asher, David Bellos, Antoine Compagnon, Linda Coverdale, Jeannette Seaver and Lily Tuck.
About the French American Foundation-United States
Founded in 1976, the French-American Foundation is the principal non-governmental organization linking France and the United States. Our mission is to promote a dynamic French-American partnership and to advance the humanist principles that these two countries represent. We provide high-level policymakers, academics, business leaders and other experts on both sides of the Atlantic with a platform to share knowledge and best practices on a wide range of policy issues. Our goal is to inform debate and to identify solutions to common issues of global concern.
We accomplish this mission through a variety of initiatives, including conferences, study tours and leadership and professional exchanges on subjects such as national security and defense, sustainability, equality of opportunity – for universal access to education, employment and health care – business, media and culture.
About the Florence Gould Foundation
The Florence Gould Foundation is an American foundation devoted to French-American exchange and friendship. Born of French parents in San Francisco in 1895, Florence Gould lived both in the United States and France during her lifetime. At her death in 1993, Florence Gould left the bulk of her fortune to the foundation bearing her name.